My first job out of college was as a full-time substitute teacher at Wilkinsburg Junior/Senior High School. A week…

Full disclosure: I am not an expert on wax. I didn’t study wax history in college; I haven’t been to a wax museum in…

On Tuesday, Politico published “Sponsor an Immigrant Yourself”—a thought exercise from people allegedly named “Eric…

I am going to attempt to explain why I intentionally went an entire year without reading a new book. I am not quite…

On Monday morning, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled its official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. I…

Black Panther premieres to the general public this week. And as we all already know, it will be the blackity, black,…

Like sandwich cake, video games, Mary Kay distributing and trapping, there are levels to this whiteness shit. In…

Quincy Jones’ recent viral interviews have proved that he’s thoroughly fuck-deprived. And also, to quote the homie…

The entire spectacle of national signing day is an exercise in absurdity. It’s absurd that major-conference college…

I began writing this at 1:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The entire span of my 30s has been an exercise in attempting to give the fewest fucks possible. It hasn’t been easy.…

Black Pittsburgh Facebook was on fire yesterday because the pastor of a popular church here, Mount Ararat, seems to…

Thank you for the kind words! I should tell you, though, that this explainer is actually about the colloquial use of…

You do not have to search very far to find good and moral reasons to hate the New England Patriots (also, to be…

America’s progressive distilling, dissolution and dissolving of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and the accompanying…

I forgot who it was who first told me that Ice Cube never smiles in movies. I think it was a Delta because that’s a…

While in Washington, D.C., this morning waiting for a connecting flight to Birmingham, Ala. (I’m speaking at the…

I was on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh during the State of the Union, so I missed the entire thing.…

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Earlier Monday afternoon, Deadspin revealed that Professional White Woman Britt McHenry bought many of her Twitter…